essay about a memory
Glenda Echegyen
ESOL 840
Unit 2 & 3
12/03/2014
My Biggest Childhood Memory. "No matter how much suffering you went through, you never want to let go of those memories" Haruki Murakami. As Murakami said, there is a memory in my mind that even though it causes pain in my heart to remember, it is something I don't want to let go. This event in my life occured when I was 5 years old and lasted until I was a teenager. In June 1995, a month before my 5th birthday , I woke up in my bed and found a letter under my pillow; to my surprise, it was a letter from my mother saying she was leaving our home and traveling by land to The United States Of America. It had been the most difficult day of my life, and even though I was just a little girl, it made a big difference in my life compared with the life of girls my age. It was an important but painful event that taught me how to take care of myself, how to be responsable at an early age, and it showed me that in the most difficult situation I am not alone, God is with me. Even my mom and father can leave me alone, but God is always there for me. To begin with, the first couple of months after my mom's departure were really hard for me. She left me under my father's protection, my father did everything he could do to take good care of me, but his efforts were not enough. There was a hole in my heart that only my mother could fill. Usually, at the age of 5 years old, a girl relies on her mother to do everything, but in my case, at that age I learned to do everything by myself, and as I grew up, I gained the experience to take care of myself . For example, my father hired a person to take care of our house and to cook for us, but she started her work day at 9:00am and finished it at 9:00pm. By the time she arrived to my house every morning, I was already gone to school, and my father had left the house even earlier than me. For this reason, I had to prepare my lunch bag for the day and get dressed by myself, those days
ESOL 840
Unit 2 & 3
12/03/2014
My Biggest Childhood Memory. "No matter how much suffering you went through, you never want to let go of those memories" Haruki Murakami. As Murakami said, there is a memory in my mind that even though it causes pain in my heart to remember, it is something I don't want to let go. This event in my life occured when I was 5 years old and lasted until I was a teenager. In June 1995, a month before my 5th birthday , I woke up in my bed and found a letter under my pillow; to my surprise, it was a letter from my mother saying she was leaving our home and traveling by land to The United States Of America. It had been the most difficult day of my life, and even though I was just a little girl, it made a big difference in my life compared with the life of girls my age. It was an important but painful event that taught me how to take care of myself, how to be responsable at an early age, and it showed me that in the most difficult situation I am not alone, God is with me. Even my mom and father can leave me alone, but God is always there for me. To begin with, the first couple of months after my mom's departure were really hard for me. She left me under my father's protection, my father did everything he could do to take good care of me, but his efforts were not enough. There was a hole in my heart that only my mother could fill. Usually, at the age of 5 years old, a girl relies on her mother to do everything, but in my case, at that age I learned to do everything by myself, and as I grew up, I gained the experience to take care of myself . For example, my father hired a person to take care of our house and to cook for us, but she started her work day at 9:00am and finished it at 9:00pm. By the time she arrived to my house every morning, I was already gone to school, and my father had left the house even earlier than me. For this reason, I had to prepare my lunch bag for the day and get dressed by myself, those days